Machinations in the Dark is getting a makeover.

Finally hitting the first couple of chapters hard, and getting some good edits. Check back in the next few days. The first chapter is already done. Second will be done tomorrow.

New chapter is being edited as well. I'm back on track, guys!

Howdy howdy~

Derply here, signing off on the last blog post until the next batch of chapters starts releasing next Saturday. I'm just about done editing the last ones, but I've got this silly nagging thought distracting me.

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This has nothing to do with anything, yet everything to do with anything!!!

(Yeah... back to editing...)

This was a short video I made for my college editing class. The assignment was to take clips from the 1925 silent film "Battleship Potemkin", and recut any scenes we wanted in our own way, and set them to a musical track of our choice.

Well, I kind of went a little bit overboard with mine. I ended up creating a whole, meme-filled soundscape for the project just to see if I could.

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Hello everypony, I'm here to ask if there is anypony willing to edit my story Lovely Lovely Lovely. Right at this point it's kinda mediocre to be honest and I can use some help. It's a story where this brony is placed in cadence's body after they were killed on the same day, but Cadence didn't process Hogarth's body (Human who is cadence right now) who is dead permanently in his world, he still pissed his memories and everything plus this is 10 years in the past and he is kinda unpredictable at

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If any of you have gdocs, send me a link and I'll invite you guys for editing. I can use some help

I suggest reading at least the latest chapter again for a better understanding of the next chapter and rest of the entire story.

It's long, but it's a good read. :V

Sorry for the bother,

I was looking for some editing help on my stories, including the next chapter of Asylum, and I was also looking for some feedback on the stories in general to help me nail down some pernicious issues I've been facing.

Please PM me if you're willing and able to help. And let me offer my thanks ahead of time, because I do appreciate it all!

Sincerely,
Derek (aka DoD)

Hey Guys The Dragonblood Knight chapter 1 has been edited once again. Hope you guys like it

Been a long time since I did a writing blog...

When you hit that "publish" button and make your story publicly readable, what sort of responsibilities do you have about it? In most cases, the real answer is "none," or at least "none beyond the ones you decide to take on voluntarily," but there are common ones that most authors would agree they'd try to uphold.

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I've been sitting on 99 stories for a while now, almost 6 months, and I haven't published anything in 2023 except a couple new minifics in my anthology. But I've got one nearly ready to go!

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https://store.steampowered.com/app/1924490/Gigantic_Rampage_Edition/

If you missed my post, Being Cautious About Editors, you can find it here before proceeding. I will assume you’ve read it to keep this moving.

Last time I went over the importance of what you can do to protect yourself against bad editors and how to find good ones. Today I’m going to talk about the types of editors there are and my experience editing.

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Due to unfortunate circumstances, I am now in need of another editor that has proficiency in pointing out and correcting grammatical/syntax-related errors. If you want, you can also be of service to me in giving me tips on plot-development of soon-to-be-uploaded chapters and stories, and little things like that, etc.
If you're interested, contact me via PMing me on here. We can discuss in further detail there.

So, initially, I had planned to release “Grading on a Bell Curve,” the next short story involving Sunset Shimmer in the alternate timeline set up in Applications, last Monday. When I had an “emergency vacation,” that threw off my timetable quite a bit. So I retargeted it for this Monday.

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Hey guys.

In addition to my other projects, I'm currently cleaning up and doing very minor edits on Of Deadlines and Doppelgangers in preparation of actually writing the last chapter. Sorry I've dragged my feet on that story so much, I just lost a lot of my motivation to write it when I had to go through the Sparity groups and have it removed.

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I reread it and it sucks. Big time.

So, the next chapter is just about ready. Everything that needs to be written has been written, though the chapter could do with some heavy editing.

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Starting Monday, I'll be releasing Buggy and the Beast two chapters per day (AM/PM) until all twenty chapters are out. I *should* have it edited to perfection (with Tek, Peter, and docontra's help) by now, but if you're interested in pre-reading/pointing out my horrible misuse of the English language before my flaws are exposed to the world (again), drop me a note and I (might) let you look at the Gdoc. Details after the break.

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